Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1894 — Page 4

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TETE INDIAN A STATE SENTINEL, "WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5, 189 TWELVE PAGES. i

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.

(Entered nt th- l'mluHlrr at Indianilpolli m irrond elaas matter.) TKBMJ IKIl VEtU. Single copy (In Advance). 1 OO We Hak democrats to bear In mind and select their om täte paper vrlien they rome to lake subacrlptiuDi and maUe up elultn. Aajents muklDK vp club send fwr cnj- Information desired. Address tub isdiaxapolis si:tim:l., Indianapolis, Ind. W HD .ES DA Tf 5FJTE.MIIKII R, ISO. DEMOCHATIO STATE TICKET. Jailsc of Supreme Court, First Dia frlet Geortte V. Iletnhrd. Jndae of Fnprtme Court, Foartu District Joseph S. Duiley. Secretary of Stute 'William K. Myers. Asdltor of State Josenh T. Fan Ins;. Treasurer of State Morgan Chandler. Attorney-General FmncU 31. Griffith. Cleric of th Supreme Court C. W. Wei man. Superintendent of Pnblle Instrnctlom Cnarle W. Thomn. State Statistician Alexander Fulton. State CeoloR-l.t K. T. J. Jordan. MR. -WILSON'S speech. The eloquent address of Chairman wii-on of West Virginia, to the democrats of his district, which we publish thi3 momin; is worth careful reading by every man who loves his country. Next to Mr. Cleveland the people look -upon Mr. Wilsen as- the greatest tariffreform leader of the United States, and they have good cause for so doing. He Is a master of the subject, and he has been In fact the leader of the late contest In congress against the combined forces of McKinkyism. He did his part In that struggl? nobly and well. His devotion to the cause, as shown in his renunciation of West Virginia "interest?," Is known and applauded throughout th? country. His speech, at his nomination yesterday, breathes the fervent and unconquerable spirit of tariff reform that has characterized the democratic press and democratic conventions throughout the country. Mr. Wilson abates nothing of the shame and disgrace that have been 'brought upon the party by the concessions to trusts. He says: "You have fallowed with waning hopes and angry disapproval the tedious and tortuous passage of that bill through the senate, and seen that, despite a nominal majority in that body, the great trusts and monopolies werf still able to write their taxes, as they had done under republican rule, in pome of Its important schedules. The burden upon you is the same, whether they use a democrat or a republican as their amanuensis. But the wrong to you is infinitely the greater vhen thoe who bear the commission of your OA-n party thus prove faithless to its hlsrhest duties." And yet he hopethat the very victory of the sugar trust will bring about a storm of indignation and resentment that will forever stop the government of America by money. The American people are aroused as hardly anything else could have aroused them to th? deadly menace which protection begets to th. purity and the very existence of free p.iverrracnt. They have seen a single great trust empowered by our tariff laws to control the production and sale of a necessary of life, parceling out th country with its partners and u?i:! its law-made wealth and power to thwart th best efforts of the people to reduce their own taxation. They hfve ?o;i It hold up congress t?r wvls, and have he.ird its representatives boldly dcl're that thfra would b? no tariff bill In wh!h th!r Interests wer net protected, and they have realized the inal fulfilment of that boast. Wiir-n the sugar trust thus challenges the American reople to a contest of strength its days are numbered, its temporary triumph is lt3 spedir and m re oipplrte overthrow, and with its overthrow will Varloh its sister brood of monopolies that ar? strong throu.r-h its support. It dpends on th-? American people whether this hope shall be fulfilled or not. Are they still virtuous enough to throw off the frightful system of tariff bri""ry jnd corruption, of reciprocal favors between politi iar.s and tariffbeneficiaries that hi? been built up by the republican prty? Never was a ration put to a greater t:st. We claim to govern ourselves, and yet we have seen a lawless Organization, licensed to extort tribute from the pon! in spite of the earnest pretests of the people. A few democratic tr;;itors and a solid republican party d'd the work. What are you going to do about It? Will you submit? Will you demand the extermination of this association of law-breakers and lawipurchassrs? Will you transfer allegiance to the party that made and protected this trust? Verily, as Mr. "Wilson says: We may ourselves dnounce or bitterly condemn thoy who fail-d us In this fiht. We are not, therefore, subject to condemnation by our opponents. If we have (ion less in the way of relieving the people's burdens than we had hoped and promts thy would luve done nothing at alt. If we have anywhere uncovered s trust and found It too strong for our complete dirtodf nnt In the first Attempt, we hav never failed to find them sturdily and solidly arrayed for its dfen?e. The weapons with which monopoly has fought us, they have forged and tempered and supplied. The Intrenehmf nts and fortrs.-?s behind which privlig-5 has held itself from our attack they have bullded for It, stone by stone and stronghold by stronghold. Democrats may condemn, but It lies In the mouth of no republican to say anything about concessions to the sugar trust, or to any other trust. WAXAMAKEH AM) TIIC TAHIFF. John Wanamaker, postmaster-general under Harrison, is really outdoing himself in illustrating the great advantages to the people that will result from the new tarifT bill in the various lines of clothing. It takes a whole page of the Philadelphia Record to set forth the great reductions that he Is making, and he explains it very clearly. While the new woolen (schedule does not go into effect until Jan. 1, 1S5. he points out that our manufacturtrjs have the advantags "right, off,

now. In free wool and other free raw materials." Besides this he has been piling up goods In bond until he accumulated C19 cases, which he began taking out yesterday. Consequently he Is enabled to begin his reduction at once; and he does It In good shape. It would be Impossible to state In full the reductions made, but some Idea of them may be gained from the following prices: In new all-wool dress goods, cheviots imported to sell at $1.50 and J2 per yard are reduced to "0 cents; cashmere and cheviot plaids Imported to sell at $1.50 and 52.00 down to 73 cents. Allwool Packing goes from 50 cents to 37VJ per yard; call cloth from 75 to 60 cents; French and worsted serges from $1.23 to ?1; Bengalines from $1.50 to $1; silkfigured tamises and batistes from $1.50 to 75 cents. Broadcloth, in all colors, Is cut from $3 to $l.f0. Women's wash dreses, in duck, pique and the like, that have ranged from $3 to $10. are put down to a uniform price of $2. and a vest goes with each suit. All silk satins drop according to price as follows: $1 per yard cut to 75 cents; $1.35 cut to 90 cents; $1.50 cut to $1.20; $2 cut to $1.40; $3 cut to $2.25; $3.50 cut to $2.65. On silks the cuts average higher, ranging from 33 to CO per cent eff all along the line. Wanamaker eil everything:. In shoes the reductions axe as heavy as In fabrics. Women's calf Oxford tle3 go from $2 to $1.30. Infants' shoes go from $t to 50 cents. High cut Romeo slippers, in all size3 and colors, are reduced from $3 to $1.50. On linens of all kinds the average drop Is 20 per cent. On ribbons It Is 40 per cent. On carpets it Is 20 per cent. On silk curtains It Is over 50 per cent. On children's clothing It is 40 per cent. Wall papers go all to pieces, bing from SO per cent, in higher grades to 50 In the lower ones. Men's clothing goes down 25 to 30 per cent., and youths' clothing still lower. These are actual reductions made by the leading republican merchant of Philadelphia, who understands the effects of tariff legislation thoroughly, and who does business on business principles, no matter what fallacies he may advocate in political speeches. A tariff Is a tax. A reduction of a tariff Is a reduction of a tax. awfm, expense or sigar. The republican press generally is now devoting its attention to showing the awful ravages that will result from the tax on sugar, and as a sample we extract the following frnn the New York Tribune: Practically the price of centrifugal will control, and as demand appears prices of all kinds that go into consumption will be adjusted to the advance which the new duty will make In the cost of unrefined sugar, so that the added 1 cent for raw will cost consumers from 14 to 1 cents per pound. Hut already consumers have to pay from 50 cents to 87 cents per 100 pounds more for their sugar because of the iugar trust tariff. If the country consumes about sixty pounds for every inhabitant, or 3"0 pounds for every family, the increased burden is already from $1.."0 to 52. for each family in the land. Sr much the iro'-'d people are paving already, from $34.000,000 to $60,000,000 yearly, for th? luxury of a change. The general impression given by this is that the American people live on :;ugar, but suoh Is not the fact, and as every ne knows, who stops to think for a moment, it is in fact a very small part of any person's living expense. Suppose that the average individual does in fact consume sixty pounds of sugar Jn a year, which he does not, that would be a little less than one-sixth of a pound a day, or something less than one cent's worth. In othor words his sugar expense is less than one-third of a cent for each meal, and even if one should get down to hardpan and eat five-cent meal3, his sugar bill would be a very small part of his food expense. To ninety-nine people out of a hundred it makes practically no difference whether sugar is a cent Wgher or lower on the pound. But as a matter of fact sugar Is not higher. The following is a comparison of the sugar quotations in the Indianapolis Journal of yesterday and of one year ago: Aug. 28. Aug. 2S. 1833. 1X94. Hard sugars 6aifT72 o'-ifxS Confectioners' "A" 5'sft, f.jTiU S.ft "A" 541 'i 44?5Vi Hxtra "C" S'i'53 4H47 Yellow "C" 47h3-h 444"'

Drk yellow.. 7 4-, From this It appears that the grades in common use are from one-half to one and seven-eighths cents lower on the l.'Und than they were one years ago, under the blessed McKinley tariff, and with no free trade scare in sight. Instead of paying from $24.000,000 to $GO,000,OoO more yearly for sugar we are paying from $Cl,0''0,fO to $120,000,000 less. Theoretically the sugar tax ought to work out as the republican papers claim, but practically it does not, for the simple reason that the sugar trust has absolute control of the sugar trade in this country, and under the McKinley act It did not limit its exactions to its tariff privileges, but put prices up to the highest notch. It is very questionable if sugar will ever again be so high as it was under the McKinley bill, tax or no tax. OWEX'S KEYXtTE. In all kindness we would advise the Hon. W. D. Owen to retire to some convenient library aaid study for a while before he attempts to mett Capt. Myers on the stump. If be ever makes such a speech in Joint debate as he made at Peru yesterday he will be mad the laughing-stock of the whole country. He starts out "with the 'ridiculous falsehoods that sugar has ten advanced in price 12 cents per pound and that the tariff bill has "lort to the farmer $100.000.000 on his wool and sheep this year." The total wool product of the United States la 207,000,000 pounds. For eight years past the average price of wool has been 14 cents. If wool did not bring anything at all the total loss could not exceed $43,000,000. The total number of theep in the United States is 45,043,147. Their average value is less than $2 per head. If every one of them died tomorrow, and nothing coukl be saved from their remains, the lors would be less than Mr. Owen's statement. llr. Owen has evidently obtained his tariff education; from the Indianapolis

Journal and other Irresponsible republican papers, and has not Judgment enough to pick out the statements that are plausible, and exclude those that ar Impossible. In an effort at sectionalism he makes this eloquent outburst: The bill Is a revival of sectionalism In national legislation. It distinctly favors Southern products and unblushingly discriminates against Northern products. Sugar I. taxed at 40 per cent.; molasses, 45; mica, 20; sumac. 10; peanuts, 36; rice, 67, while cocoanuts, dates, currants, pineapples and olives have a 50 per cent, increase over the old tariff. Each of these articles is Southern, and for climatic reason cannot be produced in the North. On the other hand, every article of the Northern agriculturist is greatly reduced, and the most important articles have every vestige of protection torn from them. We should like to know what climatic reason prevents the production of mica in the North. Does Mr. Owen mean to say that mica seed will not grow In the fertile soil of Indiana? And sumac? What is the matter with sumac growing in the North? But, as a matter of fact, the new tariff bill reduces the duty on mica 43 p?r cent, from the McKinley rate, and on extract of sumac the reduction is 57 per cent, from the McKinley rate, and on rice 25 per cent, from the McKinley rate, and on peanuts 72 per cent from the McKinley rate. If there be anything sectional In the new rate, what shall be said of the sectionalism of the McKinley bill? When did currants become Southern products, or cocoanuts, or dates, or olives? Mr. Owen will hardly satisfy his farmer constituents if he cannot guess closer than thl. to the list of foreign fruits and frui'ts that are common to the whole country. For years the republicans have been, claiming that the production of beet-root sugar was a great and growing Industry of the North which was entitled to protection. It was on this ground that the sugar bounty in the McKinley bill was defended. The only question, so far as raw sugar is concerned, is which is better, a bounty of 2 cents a pound or a tax of about 1 cent a pound. The former brings nothing to the treasury and takes millions out. The latter brings millions to the treasury and takes nothing out. The "protection" to sugar planters by the 40 per cent tax is not more than one-half the "protection" bf a 2-cent bounty. What is there sectional in reducing the protection of a Southern Industry one-half? Tnere Is a great deal more of Interesting idiocy in Mr. Owen's spewh which will repay Investigation. It was published in the Journal yesterday. AS TO Ml All PRICES. The Sentinel is always grateful to the News for thd aid it offers in the construction of tariff and other editorials. It is a neighborly act which is always to be expected from a paper that is a self-appointed guardian to its contemporaries, watching carefully over their morals, manners and general interests. But for the benefit of the readers of the News we would suggest that it inform itself on the subject occasionally before It tenders its advice. Casually. It may be mentioned, that The Sentinel is In no fear of misleading its readers on the sugar tariff or any other tariff question. They are too well educated for that They are also too well educated to imagine that the general rules of tariff Imposition affect all articles in exactly the same way. They know that a tariff on wheat does not have the same effect as a tariff on copper. They know that a change of tariff om wool, from existing rates, will not have the same effect as a change from the rates on woolen goods. The readers of The Sentinel do not therefore, measure all tariff changes on a procrustean bed, as the News does, and their faith in general tariff rules Is not at all shaken by the fact that sugar Is cheaper now than it was one year ago under the republican "free sugar law." The reason why sugar is an exception to general rules is that it Is controlled absolutely by a trust whose monopoly Is so complete that It has been enabled to extort far more than mere tariff advantages from the people. Perhaps wre can explain this more successfully to the News byquoting the market rates of sugar, as given by Minford Sz Co.'s circular of Aug. 25," for that date and for the same dates in 1S03 and 1802, which are as follows : 1S?4. 1S93. 1S92. Fair refining. Sf deg. test.. V 3 2J '.C, dog. test centrifugals 34 S'-i 3n-s Standard granulated 5 5 4i The prices of the first two qualities are "net cash." and cf th? last "less 3-16." Granulated sugar is made from 96 deg. test, and yet by comparing the figure3 fr 1R92 and 1?!3, both under the McKinley law. it will be seen that the trust was selling granulated sugar five-eighths of a cent higher in the latter year, although it paid only one-eighth of a cent more for its material. In 1S94. still under the McKinley law, it sells granulated three-eighths of a cent cheaper, although Its material Is one-fourth of a cent dearer. Here is a ran;? of seven-eighths of a cent in the profits of the trust, all under the same law. WTiy? Simply because the trust puts prices where it wants them, Influenced chiefly by the speculative intercuts of Us officials. While The Sentinel has the most profound hatred of the concessions to the sugar trust, and has protested most earnestly against them. It does not believe that the real object of the trust in demanding thc-m was merely to secure the difference of the tariff in its profits, "its object was something worse. It does not fear ordinary occasional importation of refined Eugar, because no sugar dealer will dare import refined sugar unless he can be assured of a constant supply as cheap or cheaper than trust sugars. What It does fear, and does want to prevent Is the establishment of any permanent foreign competition, and Ita only safeguard against that Is a tariff. Last year its real "protection" did not exceed sixtenths of a cent, and yet It exacted about 2 cents profit. Thl3 year its "protection" is certainly not greater than six-tenths of a cent and it is exacting about 1 cent profit In both cases the profit Is so

largely la excess of the protection, that It would be folly to say that it is due flolely to protection. We doubt that refined u-ar will Teach McKinley law prices at any near day, unless some extraordinary contingency should arise. Buü whether it does or not, anyone who attempts to measure the effects of a tariff change, by the movement in the price of refined sugar. Is leaving out of consideration the tremendous influence of one of the tightest monopolies ever known.

A LITTLE EXPERIENCE. , The Chicago Inter Ocean has the kindnew to concede that the time for theoretical argument about the merits of tariff reform is past, and that we are now entered upon the season of experienco. We shall see what happens now that a new tariff Is in force. We shall see whether sugar goes up or down in price. We shall see if free wool makes cheap clothing. We shall see If the 35 per cent, reduction In the raw material of coal makes clothing, cutlery, pottery, or any other goods manufactured by the use of coal perceptibly cheaper. We shall see if coal itself is made any cheaper to the email consumer who buys It by the ton, or by the still smaller consume!" who buys It by the basketful. We shall see if the Gorman sugar trusts' plan of "opening the markets of the world" will lead any foreign country to buy an additional bushel of American wheat, or an additional pound of American meat or to pay a higher price for either. Very true. So we sha.lL And as we have shown heretofore, and again show by parallel quotations this morning, the price of sugar ranges from one-half cent to one and one-half cents lower than it did one year ago under the beneficent influence of the McKinley tariff. We have quoted the statements of that eminent republican, John Wanamaker, as 'to the effect on clothing and textile fabrics of all kinds, and his is a practical exposition, for the prices go with the statement The Inter Ocean, however, brancjhes off on another Una of Jnqulry in the following: Indiana wool is worth 11 cents cash in these "gVKd old democratic times." Uncle Sa.m's democrats seem to have- the Idea that they can raise wool cheaper in Australia and South America. But wait until the American flocks are killed on! and see what will happen. This Is a startling statement and Intended to create the impression that there has been a tremendous decline in wool. The telegraphic dispatches, however, state that the taking effect of the law did not affect the price of wool at all. The market was wholly unaltered. But, chirps some republican, that Is because the market had been brought down to free trade rates in anticipation of the bill. Let us see about that. One year ago there was no immediate anticipation of any free trade bill. One year ago we were still enjoying all the blessings of McKInleyism to the wool-growing industry. Foreign wools were still shut out from competition by an enormous duty. And yet on Aug. 29, 1S93, the Indianapolis Journal quoted unwashed fine merino wool at 105113 cents, and tubwashed at 2023 cents per pound. These are among the best protected grades. Yesterday the Journal quoted unwashed fine merino wool at 1012 cents, and tubwashed at 20023 cents. The fact is, as The Sentinel has repeatedly shown, that free wool is not a detriment but an. advantage to the average American wool-grower, and the McKinley tax was so much greater than any difference between the price of foreign and domestlo wools that it was in no sense protective. It was simply an unnecessary and scandalous imposition on the manufacturer which he had to recoup by cutting in other directions, and one direction in which he cut was domestlo wool. Wool has always been higher under low tariffs than under high tariffs and there is no reason why it should be different now. This may seem like a contradiction, but it is a recorded fact which cannot be successfully questioned. THE STATE DEDT REDCCTIOV. We are surprised to find Mr. Ketchum making the statement that the debt of the state has not really been reduced $710,000 by virtue of the new tax law, because the state received "$750,000" of refunded direct taxes from the national government. Mr. Ketchum has had enough connection with state tax matters to know better. He certainly knows when the tax law was passed and when the funds produced by It first became available. He ought to know that the total received from the refund was $723.021.02. and all but $3,877 of this was paid to the state on April 10. 1S91. He ought to know that he state had been borrowing money at the rate of $700,000 a year to meet its interest payments, and that the next $700,000 of interest was paid from this refund, no further loans being made. He ought to know that as soon as the proceeds of the taxes under the new law began coming in there were sufficient funds to pay all interest and other expenses, and also reduce the debt to the amount of $710.000. When the new tax law was passed the financial condition of the state was generally known to. be serious. The annual expenditures exceeded the receipts of the treasury by more than half a million dollars. Money was being borrowed to pay interest on the public debt, which then aggregated $8.826,143.13, and was constantly increasing. This was the situation that confronted the democratic administration at the very threshold of its regime, and to meet interest on the public debt it was compelled to negotiate a loan of $.".00,000 on March .2. 1831. This unhappy condition of affairs that was going from bad to worse, piling up the public debt enormously every year, with no hope of relief was directly attributable to the operation of the old tax law. To meet this condition the present tax law was enacted by the democratic legislature of 18!1 the wisest, most equitable and best revenue measure ever placed on the statute books of Indiana. The first results of this act were manifest in the settlements of the counties with the state in May. 1832. ' April 10, 1891, the state received from the general government $719.144.03 a ref under of the direct war tax of 1861 but every dollar of this wis absorbed by the

running expenses of the state government that year. Had it not been for this receipt the state would have been compelled " to borrow practically that amount to cover the expenses of 1S9L This was one year prior to ths first tax payment under the new law. ' The state paid on its bonded debt, April 1. 1S93. $340.000 one year under the new tax law and on April 1, 1S94, it took up bonds to the amount of $370,000. Thus, in two years' time we have reduced the public debt $710.000; and before the close of the current fiscal year Oct. 31 we hope to swell the aggregate to $1.000,000. We have shown: 1. That under the operation of the old tax law the state treasury was running behind more than half a million dollars annually when the present democratic administration came Into power In 1891. 2. That the state debt was $S,S26.1 15.13. and was Increasing every year. 3. That the state could not meet interest on Its bonded debt without borrowing the money therefor thus augmenting the obligations of the state. 4. That every dollar received from the general government In 1891 was absorbed by the expenses of the state during that year. 5. That the present democratic administration has not only met all expenses of the state promptly, but has reduced the bonded debt $710.000 taking up every obligation as it matured and will be able to swell the total of debt paid to $1,000,000 by the close of the current fiscal year. The democratic party throughout the country has cause to rejoice that Senator Gorman's followers have been beaten In the primaries in Charles county, Maryland. The democrats of Maryland can do nothing better, either for themselves or for the party throughout the country, than to hit a Gorman head wherever it appears. A Tipton woman was scalped while working In a canning factory yesterday. Her hair caught in a line shaft and the entire scalp was torn off. The pauper laborers of England are protected from such occurrences as this by a law which requires all dangerous machinery to be covered or boxed.

Mr. Breckinridge's campaign has reached the stage at which he denounces his critics as "polecats." If he continues at this gait he will call some one an ornithorhyncus before, he gets through. In an international way Mr. Vanderbilt will make a fair stand-off for Mr. Robert Peel. It is perhaps superfluous, but it may be observed, that "Billy" Wilson is all right It now appears that congress jtdjourncd without adopting Coxey's good roads bill. Wonder if Mr. Harrison is as much a student of markets as he used to be? PERSONALS. The oldest prelate In the church of England Is the bishop of Chichester, who is ninety-one. Sir John Lubbock is probably the only living man who has won extraordinary distinction as a man of business, a politician, a scientist and a man of letters. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt sometimes wears what irreverant young men call a "hawser of soltaires," which, fastened on one shoulder, is bound round and rouni the bodice of her gown. Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irvlng's rival, who is coming to America soon, sweeps his hand across his forehead with a gesture which originated the phrase of "giving his brains away." Ex-Congresäman John Mercer Langston, the colored lawyer, who served eight years as minister to Hayti before representing Virginia in the house, has in press a novel of an autobiographical nature. Stephen GambriQ. who married Senator Gorman's sister has a son who Is going to marry one of the senator's daughters. Both father and son axe employed in government departments in Washington. Jack Mason of Manola fame Is the son of Daniel Mason, at one time of the publishing house of Mason Bros., New York, and grandson of the late Lowell Mason, a weU-known musician and composer. It Is reported that Miss Frances E. Willard has decided not to advocate political prohibition any longer. She thinks that the best way to promote temperance among workingmen is to better their social condition. Oronyatekha, a Mohawk Indian, who lives in Toronto, draws $10,000 a year as a supreme officer of the order of Foresters in Canada, and has an income as a practicing physician. He looks forty-five and Is suspected of being seventy. The Washington correspondent of one of the moat prominent eastern daily newspapers received the following telegraphic inquiry a few nights ago from the managing editor of his paper: "Who is Cannun of Illinois? Is he worth 1,000 words?" Since the recent death of Dr. James Kitchen of Philadelphia Dr. Hiram Corson of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, is declared by Philadelphia papers to be the oldest physician in the United States who has been in continuous practice. He will be ninety years old next October, and has been in active practice since 1S27. The Siberian millionaire PonomarjefT, whose death was announced at St. Petersburg some months ago, left a million rubies with the direction that they should be placed in banks at compound interest for ninety-nine years, after which they are to be devoted to the construction and support of a Siberian university at Irkutsk, at which all instruction is to be gratis. Augustus Thomas, the playwright, is a heavily built man, with a smiling countenance, who does not look as though the midnight oil disagreed with his health. He is one of the few playwrights in the country who can undergo the onlal of a "first night" of one of their own plays and not exhilet outwardly the excitement that must pertain to such an occasion. Peahaps the f.nest thing a woman ever did for a worthless man was done by the Douglas maiden who thrust her arm into the staple and held the door until her arm broke, that she might give James of Scotland time to escape from his murderers. But the finest things women do are all apt to be done out of loyalty to worthless men. When they get control of a man who is worth something they generally impose on his good nature. N. Y. World. In a recent address the countess of Aberdeen, wife of the viceroy of Canada, pointed out that in Nova Scotia there is no line of charitable and religious work in which women are not largely active. This applies throughout the civilized world as fully as In Nova Scotia, In all Protestant churches the influence of women is paramount, and they are hardly less active In the work of the catholic church. But for their work there would not be religion enough la the world to be worth mentioning.

ALONG THE BYWAYS.

The old organ-grinder sat on the sidewalk, slowly grinding out In squeaky discords some old familiar air. A sljsn in front told the' public that he was paralyzed, and a little tin cup on the top of the organette received the nickels and pennies of the sympathetic passers-by. He had turned the crank from early Thorn, and now his eyes grew heavy and dim. His head dropped on his partly covered breast and the music stopped, but in a moment he aroused himself, sat erect again and turned on. The nickels still rattled in the tin. Again the head dropped and slower came the music, but again he straightened up and went to work harder than ever. It was a hard fight. Gradually the music grew slower again. It came In tits and starts. Slow and slower moved the old inaa's arms, slopped, moved again, stopped and fell by his side. The relieved head again rested on his breast. The arms hung loosely by his side. The pennies still dropped into the cup, i but he heard them not he was asleep. One or two stopped to watch him for a moment, and then passed on. Soon the old man's features assumed a pained expression, and tears trickled down the weather-beaten cheek. Again he was suffering th pangs of a cruel fate. Once more he was passing through that stage of grief that altered his life and brought him to what he row was. His body quivered, and he sobbed and moaned, but the dream passed away, and another more pleasant took its place. The face assumed a look not worn for years. The features became softened, and a happy smile illumined the face. He was a by again wild, careless and free. All was happy, and the future was bright and rosy. , But now he could see his wife. Up among the fleecy clouds he could see her and his children, who had gone there while fortune still smiled on him, an 1 before he took the downward course. lie was happy again. He reached toward them. He raised his bony hand above his head, moved slightly, slowly opened his eyes, then started and wildly swung his arms and shrieked: "Who in stole my cup?" Buffalo Enquirer. An up-town young man who is fresh to a degree that surpasses endurance, and who persists in talking all the time there Is anybody in sight, went out for the evening one night last week and met a girl from Boston, says the Buffalo Express. Although the young man talks continually ha occasionally uses some very bad grammar. One fault is particularly glaring. He Invariably says "I done it" for "I did it," and, as he i3 continually talking about himself, he makes this mistake many times in the course of an hour. He engaged the Boston girl in conversation and told her some fairy tale about something or other that had happened to him. When he got through she expressed surprise that such a thing could happen, and asked him: "Did you really do all that?" "I done it," replied the young man proudly. Then he branched into another romance. This was even more startling than the first. The girl from Boston listened patiently, and, when he had finished, politely said, "can it be possible you did anything so wonderful?" "That's what I done," replied the young man. chucking out his chest as he made the remark. The great success of his two stories spurred him to other efforts, and he recited another condensed dime novel for the. benefit of the girl from Boston. When he had finished the girl said: "Oh, do you know you remind me so strongly of Banquo's ghost?" "You mean the ghost in the Shakespeare play?" inquired the young man, in a hesitating sort of way. "Yes." "And why?" "Don't you remember that Macbeth said to him, 'Thou canst not say, I did it?'" And until this day the young man does not know why everybody laughed. "That drunkenness and its mischievous consequences are not peculiar to the human race alone," said Prof. E. B. Sheldon of Minneapolis at the Laclede last evening, "are, in my mind, established facts. I have paid particular attention to the avidity with which wasps attack certain fruit when it is overripe, and have noticed some of the peculiar results of their doing so. The sugar in some fruits which are most frequented by wasps has a tendency to pass into a sort of alcohol in the process of rotting. On such fruits, particularly grapes and plums, you will frequently see wasps pushing and fighting with each other, endeavoring to get at the coveted prize. After they have got at it and filled themselves with the juice you will see them get very' drunk, crawl away in a sort of dazed condition and repose in the grass for some time, presumably until the effect wears off, when they invariably return and get in the same condition again. It is while they are thus affected that they do their worst stinging, both in the virulent nature of the stroke and the utterly unprovoked assaiilts of which they are guilty. I was stung last year by a drunken wasp, and for several das-s suffered severely from symptoms of nerve poisoning." GlobeDemocrat, There was quite a crowd around a coalhole in the sidewalk, and It was soon learned that a lady who was passing had stepped into the uncovered hole and they were getting her out. She was not hurt in the least, but rather frightened and dusty. A male relative who accompanied her was executing a series of gymnastics around her. "Sure you're not hurt, Addie?" he asked anxiously. "Not a bit. Kiehnrd." "Xo sprained or broken bones?" "Not one. You see I was caught by a man who was passing and that saved me from being hurt." "Where 13 the officious wretch?" " "Richard, he is my deliverer:" "Deliver nothing! If you had Just broken one little bme we could have sued the city and recovered $10,000 damages." Louisville Times. THE XDA'A IDEA. The McKinley bill iß dead. So is McKinley politically. Crawfordsville Ar-gus-News. The McKinley bill has been paid off in full. The democrats did it. Columbus Herald. The tariff barons will have to go down into their pockets to furnish boodle to run the republican campaign. Sullivan Times. There is no room In the democratic party for men who will stand up and champion trusts and monopolists. Kick the traitors out, and point the finger of scorn at them on all occasions. Tipton Times. Under the new tariff hundreds of large manufactories are resuming, notwithstanding the calamity-howling of the republican press. This country is Just entering upon an era of great business prosperity. New Albany Ledger. The republican organs are now writing long editorials on the reduction of wages under the democratic tariff. It happens, though, that the reduction has been proceeding for months under the republican McKinley bill. Jefferson vllle News.

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The Scotch have the heaviest average brain weight fifty ounces. In England private card.-J with halfpenny stamp affixed are accepted as postal cards. Swallowing ch-ving gum cau.:cl tho death of a young wonun at Princess Anne, Ml., recently. Vivian Burnett. "Little Lord I-Vuntle-roy," is r.ino'tovn yr irs . I and h is passed his fximiuations f -r Hav.ird. The c-.-Jet.r.K'M Plymouth (Knzlanl) brAikwatT contains as rnu.'-h stone as the great pyramid, viz.. 3.vo,t ) V n. The people In II irk in, N. Y.. say they are suffering now fr m a pes: of fleas. Th y say it comes every five years. Six years ago China wts annu.V.ly sending to this country an a v. raze of 220.003 d zen of eggs and Japan S7.09'i d .. n. Congressman. Wils-.i will sail for Eur -'po on Spt. 3 and will be absent for three w-ks. He It going aorad f r rest. The total number of blind persons in the United Stat-? and Kurepe is 2.".2.743, or about eighty-one to each luOiOO of population. "ChoDy pursued a number of studies at college, didn't he?" "Yes. He pursued 'e:n. but I don't think he ever caught up with any." Chieapo Record. a The copyright of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" expired a year ag, but Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe Is still allowed a bonus from the sale of th work by her publishers. "Why don't you feed your pig today, John?" "Because I don't want her to be to fat, and by fee-ling her only every Fe.-ond day I'm sure to get god streaked bacon." Fliegende Blaetter. Another use for aluminum has been tried in Russia. The mitres of the bishops are being made of the metal. The Metropolitan of Kasan has such a mitre, as has also the one of Kieff. Th? body of a man weighing 154 pounds contains 11C pounds of water, thirty-eight pountls of "dry matter," twenty-einht pounds of the latter being "organic," and ten pounds of various minerals. Some trades do not go well together. For example, a New York undertaker displays in his window beside a gaping colli n a placard announ -ing In great black letters, "Apartments to Let." A pleasant picture of the domestic life of Edwin Booth will be founl in the volume of recollections which the actor's daughter Edwina has written. A large number of Booth's letters are to be included. That wa a clever hit which the late Leconte de Llsio once made in speaking of Baudelaire. "Boudelaire," he said, "was a good fellow who used to churn his brain, as one churns butter, to iind strange ideas." The Sunday society's object Is to pr--vide lectures for the people in London on Sundays. The Lord's day observation society has lnterferred and su.-'ceede.l in putting in force, an eld law prohibiting Sunday lectures. "As to this case of yours, my friend." said the lawyer, "to be perfectly honest with you " "There needn't be any guff of that sort between you c.n 1 me," interrupted the client. "I'm a horse jockey." Chicago Tribune. An ambitious engineer In Pittsburg wants to lay a pipe line from that city to. the nearest oint on the Atlantic co.ift f:r the purple of supplying the people of western Pennsylvania with sea water for bathing purposes. The queen has bren pleased to approve that a militia cavalry battalion, of which the duke of York is honorary colonel, shall be in future designated as "The Duke of York's Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars Yeomanry Cavalry." The Lady Margaret Grosvenor, whose engagement is announced to the young prince of Teck, a brother of the duchess of York, is a daughter of the richest duke in England. The Grosvenors are also one of the oldest families in England. The odd fellows of Missouri have decided to build a home for the helpless ones of that order. Several enterprising towns are in competition for this homj and In a few weeks It will be settled which community will be favored with this new charitable enterprise. So numerous ara the photographers, amateur anJ otherwise, whi now travel about the country provided with kodak and camera, that the provision of a dark room for the purpose of their pastime, or profession, as the case may be, has become a feature with English hotels. The Turkish government has ordered the aqueducts of Solomon in Jerusalem to be put into repair. They will bring water into the city from the fountains of Arroul. A tunnel 4,000 yards long will be built at a cost of $2,000,000. The aqueduct was still In working order in the time of Christ. Miss Catherine Dumyeen of a New York tenement house was evicted last week because she cculd not pay her rent. She is 103 years oil ani tries to do quilting for a living. After the eviction she received an unsigned letter containing $1. Steps have been taken to send her to an asylum. t Teacher "Harry, if a basket of peaches costs $1 and there are fifty peaches In the basket, how much does one peach cost?" Juvenile Pupil "I I don't know, ma'am. We don't nevf-r have to buy peaches at our huse. My papa's a baggage man on a 'xpress train." Chicago Tribune. Certain species of ants make slaves of others. If a colony of slave-making ants is changing the nest, a matter which Is left to the discretion of the slaves, the latter parry their mistresses to their new home. One kind of slave-making ants has become so dependent on slaves that even if provided with food they will die of hunger unless there are slaves to put it in their mouths. "It has been the custom among cavalry troops to stimulate the horses with whisky." said Col. A. D Cate, "and I have always thought that it was a good thing to do. In fact I have done it a great deal myself and with seemingly good results, but I have been reading some reports of experiments made in Germany, where the custom has been followed for a long time, and they seemd to prove that horses so stimulated are much more apt to die from overexertion. Cincinnati Enquirer. The incompetence of the interpreter In, the Caeserio trial attracted general notice. It was due tJ the rule that in France no foreigner can serve tho-' state, except as a street sweeper in Paris, and even there the number of foreigners must not exceed one-tenth of all the sweepers. As a result an Englishman cannot teach English in a public school, nor can an Italian interpret lWore a tribunal. Amusement was caused by the fact that Caeserio understood the French of the Judee better than he did the Italian of the Interpreter. It is said that the publication in book form of Du Maurler's "Trilby." which has just come to an end in Harper' Monthly, has been delayed by the belligerent attitude of Mr. Whistler, who has not forgotten any of his bellicose lore since he wrote "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies." Mr. Whistler thinks that he Is caricatured In the novel as Sibley, and has threatened the publishers with suits for damages if they print the objectionable matter or the portraits of Sibley. So the publishers naturally prefer to wait long enough to see where they stand. Dr. Price's Cream Caking Powdef World s Pair Highest Award.